Introductions and Unit 1

Monday

5 LABOR DAY

Tuesday

6
Writing Assessment

12
Puritans
Sinners

13
Common Assessment Day 1

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Dark Romantics
Poe project work time

20
Poe gallery walk
Batman Returns

Wednesday

Thursday
September 1
Intro

7
Native Americans

8
Puritan Intro

HW: Of Plymouth Plantation

Three Worlds Collide

The Basics
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Common Assessment Day 2
I Am Poem

Friday
2
Pictures
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Puritans
Bradstreet and Taylor poetry

15
Romantics
Thanatopsis
Start Dark Romantics (?)

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Dark Romantics
Poe

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Transcendentalism
Jigsaw
Image

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Naturalism
-Isms test review
Huck books

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Corn-Pone Opinions

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Dickinson poetry

30
Finish Dickinson
Reading day

HW: chapter 6-7

HW: chapters 8-9

21
Finish Batman Returns
Transcendentalism
Intro
Jigsaw prep time
HW: Finish jigsaw readings

26
-Isms test

27
Huck Finn
Intro and reading time

HW: chapter 1-3

HW: chapters 4-5
October 3
Whitman poetry

4
Finish Whitman
Reading and reading day

HW: chapters 10-13

5
Reading day
HW: chapters 18-19

HW: chapters 14-15

10 TEACHER WORK DAY

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Hatfields and McCoys reading

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Hatfields and McCoys reading
HW: chapters 22-25

HW: chapters 20-21

HW: chapters 16-17
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Finish Hatfields and McCoys
readings
Modernism
HW: chapters 26-27

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Satire

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Satire
Local color (come back to this)

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Discussion (slide 47)
Reading day

HW: chapters 30-31

HW: chapters 32-35

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Is Huck Finn Racist reading
and discussion questions
HW: chapter the last

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Quote analysis

HW: chapters 28-29

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Assign essay prompts

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Social Reform and Huck

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PSAT

HW: chapters 36-37

HW: chapters 38-39

HW: chapters 40-41

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Review
Thesis workshop

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Huck Finn test

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Outline work time

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Turn of the Century Minorities
The Jungle
Muckrakers

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Turn of the Century Minorities
Riis and Hines
photographs

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Timed Write (30 min): How can
media influence/create change?
Discussion

November 1
Female writers
Cult of Domesticity
HW: Charlotte P. Gilman Yellow
Wallpaper

4
Rough Draft work time

7
Far and Away

8
Far and Away

14
Harlem Renaissance
How it Feels to be Colored Me
When the Negro was In Vogue

15
Harlem Renaissance
Speakeasy

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Gatsby
Discussion
Film version chapter 1

22
Gatsby
Discussion: characters, study
guide work time
HW: chapter 3

28
Gatsby
Hemingway and 6 Word Story

29
Gatsby
Silent Table Discussion
Reading time

Reading Quiz
Yellow Wallpaper
(board talk and group)
HW: Kate Chopin The Story of
an Hour
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Far and Away

The Story of an Hour

10
Rough Draft peer editing
Minorities seminar prep time

11 Veterans Day

16
Harlem Renaissance
Speakeasy
Prep time for seminar

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Minorities Seminar
iPads

18
Gatsby
Intro notes
Reading time

23
Gatsby
Group entry task
Fitzgerald and Hemingway
Comparison assignment

24 Thanksgiving

HW: chapter 1
25 Thanksgiving

HW: chapter 4
30
Gatsby
Film Version 2-6

December 1
Gatsby
Finish film version
Reading time

HW: chapter 5
HW: chapter 6
5
Gatsby
Chapter 7 Timeline
Modern Women Discussion

6
Gatsby
Film Version 7

2
Gatsby
Symbolism Board Talk
Who is Gatsby?
Introduce seminar questions

HW: chapter 7
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Gatsby
Gatsby Eulogy assignment and
work time

8
Gatsby
Blame Game
Ending reflection questions

9
Gatsby
Gatsby Eulogy walk
Gatsby vs. Jay Z

15
Great Depression
Children of the Dust Bowl

16
Great Depression
Found Poem

HW: chapter 8
12
Song sharing
Quote Integration lesson

13
Gatsby
Film version 8-9

HW: chapter 9
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Gatsby Seminar

Structuring a potential essay for

Gatsby (mind map)

Seminar prep time

19
Jim Crow
Check out TKAM
Impact lesson

20
Winter Concert

26 WINTER BREAK
January 2 WINTER BREAK

Lange
Guthrie

Depression visual

21 WINTER BREAK

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23 WINTER BREAK

27 WINTER BREAK

28 WINTER BREAK

29 WINTER BREAK

30 WINTER BREAK

3
TKAM
Depression visual due
Intro notes
Board talk
Reading time

4
TKAM
Character charts

5
TKAM
Reading day

HW: 6, 7

HW: 8-10

6
TKAM
Switching POV writing
Scout, Jem, Dill, Atticus

HW: TKAM 1-2

HW: 11, 12

HW: 3-5
9
TKAM
Reading quiz
Discussion of story
Reading time
HW: 13, 14

10
TKAM
Mrs. Dubose discussion
Switching POV writing
Scout, Jem, Dill, Atticus
Reading day

16 MLK, Jr. DAY

HW: 15-18
17

23
TKAM
Structured Academic Debate
Film of trial

24
TKAM
Film version (if needed)
Reading day

HW: 25, 26
30 TEACHER WORK DAY

HW: 27-29
31
In-class essay

11
TKAM
Figurative Language Write
(simile, metaphor, imagery)
HW: 19, 20

12
TKAM
Structured Academic debate
Scottsboro Boys
Tom Robinson trial

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25
TKAM
Symbol project intro

26
TKAM
Symbol project work time
Film version

27
TKAM
Ending reflection questions
Review for essay
Outline of the novel

2
Pleasantville
Introduction to the beats

3
50s (beats)
Finish the beats
America work time

February 1
Pleasantville (full block)

HW: Read America by

Ginsberg
7
50s (beats)
Beat poetry work time
Beat poetry day

HW: 23, 24

HW: 21, 22

HW: 30, 31

65
50s (beats)
Class America poem and
Ginsberg

13
TKAM
Quote analysis

8
50s (confessional poets)
Patti Smith and beat poetry
Women of the beat movement

9
50s (feminism, housewife)
50s ads
50s Housewife lesson

HW: Read America by

Ginsberg
10
50s (postmodernism)
Reading Day (iPads)

Beat poetry work time

13
50s (postmodernism)
Postmodernism notes (and Ken
Kesey)

14
50s (postmodernism)
Postmodernism in-class write

Political cartoon

HW: The Kentucky Derby

reading (due Friday)

15
The Crucible
McCarthyism intro
Why I Wrote The Crucible
The Story of the Witch Hunt

16
Atwood and Half Hanged
Mary

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The Crucible
Discussion of Overture
Act I

HW: Finish Overture

20 WINTER BREAK

21 WINTER BREAK

22 WINTER BREAK

23 WINTER BREAK

24 WINTER BREAK

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The Crucible
Act I
Act I Discussion Questions

28
The Crucible
Film Version
Start Act II

March 1
The Crucible
Act II

2
The Crucible
Act II Discussion Questions
Act II film version

3
The Crucible
Finish Act III
Act III Discussion Questions

6
The Crucible
Act III film version
Go over essay prompts
Intro Project

HW: Act III (83-100 or 180-184)

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April 3

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May 1

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June 1

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